Moneybags Brand gives new wife a £300,000 dowry: Comedian gave her a 50% stake in his company six days after they married

Most women would pay not to marry Russell Brand, so no wonder the former sex addict has given new wife Laura Gallacher compensation.

Just six days after the happy couple sailed down the Thames in a steamboat having exchanged vows, Brand gave his bride a ‘dowry’ — a 50 per cent stake in the company through which he channels his earnings.

The company, called Pablo Diablo’s Legitimate Business Firm, had £601,652 in the bank at the latest count, meaning Brand gave his wife more than £300,000 after she agreed to marry him in August.

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Traditional: Laura Gallacher and Russell on their big day in August

The move was revealed in documents filed at Companies House.

Champagne socialist Brand has been accused of double standards, because he once said he couldn’t manage without his hairdresser and a private jet.

Despite preaching an anti-capitalist revolution and calling profit a ‘filthy word’, the comic has amassed a personal fortune of £10 million, according to Spear’s magazine. He is also a director of a film company that allows investors to avoid tax.

Laura, 30, the sister of Sky Sports presenter Kirsty Gallacher and daughter of golfer Bernard Gallacher, first dated Brand, 42, more than ten years ago, when his ‘obsessive promiscuity’ was in full swing.

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In his lothario heyday, Britain’s most toxic bachelor allegedly slept with 1,000 women, and described himself sexually as a ‘charging locomotive’.

Brand’s second memoir describes an orgy at his house as ‘four in the bed, two in the kitchen, three in the hot tub and still the doorbell rings’. Conquests include heiress Jemima Goldsmith and Kate Moss. He was also briefly married to the singer Katy Perry, but allegedly dumped her by text in 2012.

Brand has now reinvented himself as a spiritual self-help guru who keeps chickens at his £3.3 million retreat near Henley in Oxfordshire.

He said recently that being married for a second time is ‘different’, and that becoming a father to baby daughter Mabel last November gave him ‘new life’. Although he added: ‘That’s not to say I won’t make mistakes in future.’

So now we know who wears the trousers in Poppy Delevingne’s house. The perky socialite has forced her husband, James Cook, to surrender control in the bedroom.

‘All I ever wanted was a pink bedroom, but James wasn’t convinced,’ explains the 31-year-old, referring to their newly renovated West London home.

‘Now he loves the pink because it’s so calming and cocoon-like in the winter. Or so he pretends.’

Winslet’s forecourt gymnastics

Even Hollywood stars have to do mundane tasks like the rest of us.

Oscar-winner Kate Winslet played ‘Mrs Normal’ as she pumped petrol near her West Sussex home in a check shirt and leggings.

Even Hollywood stars have to do mundane tasks like the rest of us. Oscar-winner Kate Winslet played ‘Mrs Normal’ as she pumped petrol near her West Sussex home in a check shirt and leggings

The down-to-earth actress, who turned 42 yesterday, also gave a masterclass in multi-tasking, doing leg raises while refuelling.

Winslet recently revealed how she was ‘obsessed’ with weighing herself as a teenager, but gained a healthier approach to body image by ditching the scales. ‘I haven’t been near scales since I was 23,’ she said. ‘I couldn’t tell you what I weigh now.’

Dragon Duncan sails close to the wind...

Former Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne has only been married to his third wife for a few months and he is already casting aspersions on her abilities.

The 68-year-old father of six, who wed brunette Nigora Whitehorn in Portugal in June, shared this picture of her at the helm of a gin palace on their holiday in Turkey. ‘I am not sure Mrs Bannatyne is safe driving this,’ writes Bannatyne.

The 37-year-old from Uzbekistan, who met Bannatyne when she was a receptionist at a Harley Street dentist, poses in a gold string bikini, oversized sunglasses and what appears to be her diamond engagement ring.

The 68-year-old father of six, who wed brunette Nigora Whitehorn in Portugal in June, shared this picture of her at the helm of a gin palace on their holiday in Turkey